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As much as I love baking cakes and cookies, I have to admit there is a bit of fussing around that’s to be done there. They are delicate beings! Sieving the dry, blending the wet, carefully beating the batter and in case of cookies, chilling the dough, shaping them..you get what I’m saying! On the…

Wow! I’ve been gone from this space for nearly six years. Six years. That’s a long time! It looks like the blogging bug has bitten me again. That’s a bit of a sweet quandary. Let me explain 🙂 Sweet, because it has me coming back and revisiting my posts (ahem, there aren’t that many of…

Dear all, Thank you so much for your wishes on our move back to India. We are here and still in the process of settling down. And no, I have not started cooking yet. Other than still being pampered around, work has been keeping me quite busy and away from the kitchen. But I will,…

Umm, that sounds deep. Believe me, it is not meant to. Where I’ve been – something I want to answer if you thought I abandoned my foodie blog and ran away. I’ve been busy. Busy packing. Not just our suitcases, but the whole household. Where I am going – the whole family is going. We…

Here is saying adios to the summer season with this ruby red and golden cherry tomato salad! I found these juicy and beautiful bombs at the farmer’s market last weekend. No recipe, really. I cut the tomatoes in half and tossed them with torn basil leaves, a tbsp of extra virgin olive oil, freshly ground…

How, just how could I not experiment with peaches as fresh as these?! And it was not easy to cook these, believe me, not because they wouldn’t lend themselves for cooking but because we were gobbling them up as is. They were fantastically juicy and sweet to bite into. I had to save up some…

A very dear friend of mine, Mekhala who is one enthusiastic and exceptional cook, was thrilled at the idea of RCI Karnataka. She is a regular reader of many of our blogs, but since she doesn’t have a blog of her own (yet!), I invited her over to Kitchen Aromas to do a guest post…

It is amazing how certain foods are so strongly tied to memories; memories that are decades old, braced to childhood, to growing up, to the warmth and comfort of relishing mom’s cooked food and sometimes, also to sorely missing all of those! You get the picture. This, Nucchinunde (nucch-in-unde), to me falls in that memory-stirring…